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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 7466912" data-attributes="member: 710">I am not familiar with PHP, unfortunately. I am however familiar with programming in general. I can tell you that this is probably not how you want to implement the skills in the long run, since it will be error-prone and hard to work with in the long run.Use Key Value pairs. I am not familiar with PHP, as mentioned, but a brief look here: <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php" target="_blank">http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php</a> suggests that arrays are innately capable of working as such.As key, you could use the skill name, and the value is the skill rating.When the player selects a skill during character creation, you can check (with array_key_exists) if it already has that skill. If not, you just add the new skill with rating 1 (or whatever the base rating is for the first time picking a skill.)When the map already contains the kjey, you can instead set the value to the new skill to the one before +1.Pseudo Code (Again, I don't actually program PHP, my current work is mostly C++ and a tiny bit of Python) Except that I forget semicolons and use double quotes where single quotes would be typical or whatever.)if (array_key_exists($selectedSkill, $skills)  { skills($selectedSkill)=skills($selectedSkill)+1} else  { skills($selectedSkill)=1}If you just want to know which skill the players has at all, you can use array_keys. If you wanted to know what the players Herbalism skill is, you could write skills("Herbalism");(It could be that the above code could actually omit the whole checking if the key even exists and be condensed to skills($selectedSkill)=skills($selectedSkill)+1It could be that PHP by defaults treats keys in an array that have never been set as a 0. In C++, this almost certainly wouldn't work, because an uninitialized variable will likely hold some basically random value. But interpreted language like PHP, JavaScript, Perl and Pyhton are usually simpler)In the longer run, you are probably better off creating some objects, instead of using just raw arrays and strings and numbers. But to go into that, you will need to dig a bit deeper into fundamental programming topics like algorithms and data structures (and deeper into PHP as well.)</blockquote>

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